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thanks for the reply, i have about 30.6 gb free on the Windows drive, see picture below.

I've been able to make an image with macrium reflect, but for some reason Windows Backup and Restore wont let me, which is strange, and it'd be nice to figure out the issue, I even made sure that I didnt have the services off or disabled. Maye I'm missing one that isn't obvious

I did all the things you mentioned and still no success. Really strange this doesn't want to work. I went ahead and took screen caps of all the error msgs and the info from the event viewer log files, came with an error code "2155348249" so I'll try and google that and see if I can figure this out.

sys image fails

windows System Image fails at about 150 gigsi'm trying to create a system image (Win7 home ) on an external drive, but it fails after writing about 150gig of an estimated 160gigs. i have done the following...
- chkdsk /r on source and destination - both drives are fine
- using a 500gig external drive with 330gig free & a 1 TB drive...

Backup and Restore

Creating a System Image FailsHi all.
Well, I was trying to make a system image in the Backup and Restore center today and ran into an interesting error (see attached screenshot). I went into the Event Viewer and all of the warnings/errors regarding VSS and SPP come down to an error with the ASR Writer.
Here is what the...

Backup and Restore

Creating System Image Fails repetatlyI Have Intalled XP SP3 and Windows7 fresh on C and E Drive With all Programms , Softwares and all needful things , Then I Planned to Make System Image at Last Night on DVD Media Every Thing get OK Up To 4 th Disk but at the Fifth Disk " Error varification of files on media failled " apperead and...

Backup and Restore

System Image Fails ... InstantlyHey,
As far as I can tell, the typical backup is working, but for some reason when I click the button to create a system image, it just gives me the following error:
The backup application could not start due to an internal error:
The specified service does not exist as an installed...

Backup and Restore

System Image fails...I have attempted to use a System Image to restore my wife's Win 7 Home Premier computer. It finds a System Image, and asks for permission to format and re-partition to match the layout of the System Image. Then it cycles as though it is going to restore:
Will restore...
Preparation......